Item | Specification |
Appearance | White crystalline granule or powder |
Saccharinity | ≥250 |
Specific Rotation | 30-38º |
Optical Activity | ≤0.05 |
Residue on Ignition | ≤0.1% |
Loss on drying | ≤4% |
Heavy metals | ≤0.001% |
Arsenic | ≤0.0001% |
Assay | ≥90.0% |
Stevia is a sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana.The active compounds of stevia are steviol glycosides(mainly stevioside and rebaudioside), which have up to 150 times the sweetness of sugar, are heat-stable, pH-stable, and not fermentable.
Application
Steviacan be widely used in such industries as food, beverage, medicine, daily chemicals, brewery and cosmetics. Compared with cane sugar, it can save 60% of the cost. With pure white color, pleasing taste and no peculiar smell, Stevioside is a new sugar source with broad perspective for development. Stevioside rebaudianum sugar is the natural low-hot sweet agent mostly similar to the flavor of cane sugar, approved to be used by State Ministry of Health and Ministry of Light Industry. It is the third natural succedaneum of cane sugar and beet sugar with development and health care value, extracted from the leaves of the herbal vegetable of the composite family-stevia rebaudianum.
